Service Life Prediction of Organic Coatings. A Systems Approach

Content: A systems approach to the service life prediction problem for coating systems / Jonathan W. Martin -- Risk management : the real reason for long product development time cycles / F. Louis Floyd -- Weather cycles : real or imaginary? / W.J. Burroughs -- Application of spectral weighting functions in assessing the effects of environmental UV radiation / P.J. Neale -- Statistical analysis of spectral UV irradiance data collected at Ocean City, New Jersey / Nairanjana Dasgupta, Jonathan W. Martin, and Xiaomei Guan -- Predicting temperatures of exposure panels : models and empirical data / Daryl R. Myers -- Predicting the temperature and relative humidity of polymer coatings in the field / D.M. Burch and J.W. Martin -- Monitoring and characterizing air pollutants and aerosols / S.E. Haagenrud -- Accelerated weathering : science, pseudo-science, or superstition? / J.A. Chess, D.A. Cocuzzi, G.R. Pilcher, and G.N. Van de Streek -- Accelerated life tests : concepts and data analysis / William Q. Meeker and Luis A. Escobar -- A unique facility for ultra-accelerated natural sunlight exposure testing of materials / G. Jorgensen, C. Bingham, J. Netter, R. Goggin, and A. Lewandowski -- Reliability engineering : the commonality between airplanes, light bulbs, and coated steel / William Stephen Tait -- Use of reliability-based methodology for appearance measurements / P. Schutyser and D.Y. Perera -- Analysis of coatings appearance and surface defects using digital image capture-processing-analysis system / Fred Lee, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, and Karlis Adamsons -- The relationship between chemical kinetics and stochastic processes in photolytic degradation / Sam C. Saunders and Jonathan W. Martin -- Prediction of coating lifetime based on FTIR microspectrophotometric analysis of chemical evolutions / Jacques Lemaire and Narcisse Siampiringue -- Depth profiling of automotive coating systems on the micrometer scale / Karlis Adamsons, Lance Litty, Kathryn Lloyd, Katherine Stika, Dennis Swartzfager, Dennis Walls, and Barbara Wood -- Interfacial composition of metallized polymer materials after accelerated weathering / D.E. King and G.J. Jorgensen -- Low molecular weight and polymer bound UV stabilizers / Otto Vogl, Lutz Stoeber, Andres Sustic, and John Crawford -- Overview of mechanical property changes during coating degradation / Loren W. Hill -- Stress development and weathering of organic coatings / Dan Y. Perera, Patrick Schutyser, and D. Vanden Eynde -- The effect of weathering on the stress distribution and mechanical performance of automotive paint systems / M.E. Nichols and C.A. Darr -- Improved service life of coated metals by engineering the polymer-metal interface / W.J. van Ooij -- Application of failure models for predicting weatherability in automotive coatings / D.R. Bauer -- Computerizing complex data: data quality issues and the development of standard formats for representing materials properties / J.R. Rumble, Jr. and C.P. Sturrock -- Uses and delivery of materials information / J.G. Kaufman -- Managing and tracking automotive paint etch studies conducted in Jacksonville, Florida / Raymond Brockhaus and Karlis Adamsons -- Methods for representing and accessing material property data and its use with decision support systems / Lawrence J. Kaetzel.